Belt-fastener.



W. A. ROOS.

BELT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1910.

1,042,604. Patented Oct. 29,1912,

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WILLIAM A. ROOS, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BELT=FASTENER ogg gg Specification of Letters Eatent. P tented Oct. 29, 1912.

Application filed. March 30, 1910. Serial No. 552,354.

ears 14: which are bent down as shown in Fig. 3 and are provided with the perforations 15 whereby the perforations are brought in line, and a pin can be passed through them. When the members are opposed to each other as shown in Fig. 1, the cut-away portions 16, with which the strip is provided between the ears 14, forma recess for the reception of the ears on the opposite member and the members are identical insofar as they are cut from the same strip, and one is turned end for end and placed opposite the other strip. Any suitable pivotal pin 17 is employed for acting as a pivot for the 0 members, this pin passing through the perforations 15 and being suitably headed against the outside ears so that it can not accidentally withdraw, and so that it holds To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM A. Boos, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a belt fastener for securing the ends of power belts, and provides a fastener which makes the joint flexible toward both surfaces of the belt, and permits the belt to have either of its faces bear against the transmission pulleys. the members against transverse movement The invention comprises a belt fastener outwardly or from one another. The abutwhich is made of two members that are opting ears hold the members against moveposed to each other and are adapted to be ment inwardly or toward each other. pivotally connected by a suitable pin, these The device is cheaply and easily made,

' members being cut from the same strip of and it will be apparent that it can be made material whereby the strip is made in length of long lengths and cut up, when desired, and then cut into shorter lengths to suit for belts, the strip being interlocking or the width of the belt on which it is to be matched when out in two pieces, these pieces secured. being arranged in opposition. The ear when The invention is illustrated in the accombent down in the strip in one member forms panying drawing, in whicha space for the reception of the neck and the Figure 1 is a top view of the ends of a ear of the other member which is adapted belt connected by the improved fastener. to fit against it. Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a The oblique arrangement of the necks properspective view of a fragment of one of vides a structure that gives a bracing or the members, and Fig. 4c is a top view of a sustaining means to resist a strain against part of a strip from which the members are the ears and the necks in a transverse direcbent up. tion, and which also provides for a closer The strip of material 10 is formed on one grouping of the ears than if the necks were edge with a series of prongs 11 which are perpendicular to the strip and provided with preferably provided with points and are transversely projecting ears. If this were bent down with a straight portion 12 which not the case the ears would have to be made can be driven through the belt to fasten the smaller. device thereto, and the points 13 can then Having thus described my invention, what be bent in as shown in Fig. 2, and a few I claim is 1. A belt fastener comprising two sheetmetal members, the members each having obliquely arranged necks on their abutting edges, the necks of each member being substantially parallel and formed on the end into a perforated ear, the ears being bent down to provide spaces for the reception of the necks of the opposite member, the ears of the opposed members having their fiat faces abutting, and a pivotal pin having blows with a hammer will cause these points to lie flush with the belt. These prongs being made from the flat strip of material 10, are therefore formed parallel with the strip, and these prongs being flat, they form an easy means for perforating the belt, as will be understood. On the side of the strip of material 10, opposite to the prongs, are arranged the necks 10 which are inclined the same way and provided on their ends with heads against the outside ears, the heads and. the abutting ears holding the members against transverse movement.

2. A strip for a belt fastener having means for securing it to a belt and having one edge provided With necks obliquely arranged-and substantially parallel, the necks eing provided 011 their ends with ears adapted to be bent down and provide a space between its neck and the one next adof March, 1910.

WVILLIAM A. RODS. Witnesses HENRY HEBELER, GOTTFRIED Dams.

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